V---2nd, still Chapter 13 'two bums"

[Mark Kohut]

Another of P's little-mentioned doubles?...

Who know Rimbaud!!! (only in NY and Madison, Wisc. as someone once told me)
Are these bums some kind of oblique critique of or homage to Rimbaud and 
Verlaine? 

Anyone else think of the two most famous (I think) bums in literary
history, Vladimir and Estragon, from Waiting for Godot? Beckett's
everymen...........

Wherefore, as Tony Tanner (and others) are they here as Tony Tanner and others 
ask about the drunken criminal sentenced to die in Measure for Measure.
A little preterite connection for Benny and Stencil?